Process of producing explosives.



zen of the Republic of France, and a resident enocsee cs Peooncino sxeioszvss.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Eatent Sic-895,667, elated March 18, 1902.

"hpplioetionfilecl December 5, 1900- To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH Bonner, a citiof Paris, France, have inventednew and use: ful Improvements in Processes of Producing Explosivesmliich improvements are fully set forth in ihe following specification.

Other inventors have already before this inrlicaieiithe solubility at a, high temperature of nitro or ezo derivatives in vegetable or eniniel oils or into or fatty substances. known that these fen-formingsubstances are others of fatty scicissolids in the majority oi cases-combiner with glycerin. Thns steerio acid combined with glycerin is found in fat-forming substances, such as beef-fat, in ntion-ilzt, cocoa-butter, olive-oil, and the like. it is even found in a. free statein thelnliien-beiTy,( Cocculws'lhdic as.) Pure steeric acid melee st 75' and solidifies st '70". Palinitic acid, which melts at 62, is found in a. free in old palm-oil and in a combined eiste in the fresh oil. This acid is also pres ent in s great number of vegetable or animal oils anti fats. Dlcic eciilm'hich melts et1l0,- is also presenirin sncli oils enci fats, and the some may be said of sebaoic ecichwhich melts at 127, and so on.

I have discoverorlthat nitratcd, picrated, or picronzoic derivatives nre soluble in free fatty acids or in e mixture'of such free fatty acidsflir consequence of which I em. able to produce substances the meiting-point'of which is higher than that of substances obtained by dissolving at a. high. temperature the same der' vetives in oils or fats in which these fatty sci s are combined in the form of an ether of glycerin. It will be evident that by mixing and thus covering by a process that will be described hereunder a. supporter of combus- (ion or oxidizing agent, such as the chlorates or perchlorates, alone or mixed in a. hot solution of such fatty acids, it is possible to obtain after cooling the mess explosives of a nsinrc specially adapted for hot climates, since they are only liable to become slightly softened, owing to the high melting-point of the enveloping material or vehicle.

l have also discovered that in order to raise f the nieltingpoint of substances obtained by dissolving the ,ebovcmeined derivatives in oils or it will lie snillcicni; to mill to tho Serial No. 38,795. (No specimens said oils or fate as greater orlesser pr portionof free fatty acids. j

It is Well known that glycerin is not the only body which forms others with fatty-acids, and; I may cite by way of example, without, how ever, thereby exlienstingthe list, the coinblnations of steeric acid with methyiio, cthylic, cetylic,- and like alcohols, emi that steam, ate of methyl melts at 85, steerate of ethyl at 31, and stearete of ceiyi at from-,5? to 60, and finally that steeric schl also combines with glucose, inennite ginlcire, pinite, qnercite, and the like to iorni with them others similar to stearin, pelmitin, and the like,

which are fatty bodies or ether thehese of I which is glycerin. I have discovered that all these ethers dissolve likewise nitrnteri or picreted derivatives in quantities more or less considerable, according to the tempereture of the bodies employed. I have also found that in e.- generel way the solubility of one of these substances in any vother at a high temperature (ederivetive in an acid or in other of ebnse other then glycerin) increases as the temperate re approaches that oi the meliingpoiniof the comgicnenii substance whose point of melting highest.

I have also found. that certain of the above named derivatives, which are but slightly soluble with heat in fatty acids or in e mixture oi them or in one of. the illlOV8 ililiil6ll others, when used by themselves licccnic solnole lo ngreatly-increased temperatures if they are girevionsly dissolved in another more soluble derivative. Thus dinitrotolucne is almost: insoluble in stcnric acid at a temperature of 80; out if first dissolved in mononitronephthnlene in a molten state, which dissolves considerablequantities oi the former, it will be gossible, owing lo the great solubility of tho inononitronophthelene in siceric acid, to greatly increase the actual qnentity of (llnltlbLOlllOllG remaining in solution in thostcnric acid as compared with the quantity dissolved at the some temnerninre degree at the some if the process had. not been mocliiiexi in the 1 

